Program

Examines different approaches to analyzing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict, and subsequently designing interventions with the aim of resolving such conflicts peacefully and justly. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: PLCW-2010H

Examines the causes and consequences of wrongful convictions in Canada. Particular attention is placed on role of criminal justice actors (police, courts, juries, lawyers), eyewitness testimony, false confessions, forensic misconduct, and DNA exonerations. The impact of wrongful convictions on the accused, victims, and the justice system is highlighted. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: PLCW-2011H

The history of criminalization and punishment introduces students to the historical context of nineteenth and twentieth century criminology and the rise of the modern prison as a response to the rise of industrial capitalism and colonization. Prerequisite: 60% or higher in CRIM 1615H.

Introduces students to research design and ethical debates in the study of crime and punishment. Students work with reports provided by national and international think tanks, as well as scholarly empirical articles, to critically assess knowledge production on crime and punishment. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the instructor.

A critical examination of social and legal responses to violence. Specific attention is paid to legal punishment as a response to violence, and punishment as a form of violence. Retributive and restorative conceptions of justice are considered. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including CRIM 1615H, or permission of the instructor.

Cross-listed: PHIL-2618H

Reviews the impact of incarceration, and the criminal justice system more broadly, on the family members of the incarcerated. Concepts of stigma, prisonization, the pains of imprisonment, and institutionalization are explored, as will the 'collateral consequences' of mass incarceration on communities. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including CRIM 1615H, or permission of the instructor.

Focuses on mental health and addiction and their impacts on community safety and well-being. Explains these disorders using real case scenarios. Students will become aware of victimization and stigma associated with mental health and substance abuse disorders, and have a better understanding of the etiology of addictions and mental health problems. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: PLCW-3002H

Examines the way the Canadian constitution both constrains and opens up possibilities for political change. Includes consideration of formal constitutional interpretation and the politics of the judicial process. Looks at important issues such as the federal-provincial division of powers, secession, Senate reform, and Indigenous self-determination. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits. Recommended POST-CAST 2011H, POST-CAST 2012H, or PHIL-POST 2150H.

Cross-listed: POST-3091H, CAST-3091H

Examines key Supreme Court decisions on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms pertaining to fundamental freedoms, democratic rights, legal rights, and equality rights. Assesses the role of the Charter in advancing the struggles of groups such as women, racialized communities, LGBTQ persons, and people with disabilities. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits. Recommended POST-CAST 2011H, POST-CAST 2012H, or PHIL-POST 2150H.

Cross-listed: POST-3092H, CAST-3092H

An analysis of the concept of citizenship and rights and their role in social and political transformation. Includes social justice and citizenship struggles; critical perspectives on power and various citizenship regimes; and their implementation on national and global levels. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 1.0 GDST/IDST, POST, and/or SOCI credit at the 1000 level and 1.0 GDST/IDST, POST, and/or SOCI credit at the 2000 level, or permission of instructor. Equivalent to IDST-CRIM-SOCI 3120H.

Cross-listed: GDST-3115H, SOCI-3115H, POST-3115H

An analysis of the concept of citizenship and rights and their role in social and political transformation. Includes social justice and citizenship struggles; critical perspectives on power and various citizenship regimes; and their implementation on national and global levels. Prerequisite: IDST 2000Y or SOCI 2110H (or 2100Y) or CRIM 2616H or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: IDST-3120H, SOCI-3120H

This course examines the legal and institutional frameworks for protecting and promoting human rights at national and international levels. Students explore the main treaties, and the role of courts, tribunals, and other mechanisms in enforcing human rights standards. Prerequisite: HURI 2001H, GDST 2000Y (or IDST 2000Y), or SOCI 2110H, or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: HURI-3121H, GDST-3121H, SOCI-3121H

Critically examines homelessness as a social issue, applying sociological perspectives and a Canadian focus. Topics may include mobility and containment, families and youth, employment and migration, the criminalization of homelessness, shelters and poor houses, masculinities and femininities on the street, and homelessness in their city. Prerequisite: 5.0 university credits including at least 1.0 credit in SOCI at the 2000 level.

Cross-listed: SOCI-3250H

Poverty is a persistent social problem. In this course students are introduced to the dynamics of poverty in Canada, the USA, and Britain, learn how poverty affects people's lives, and become familiar with the dominant sociological perspectives that inform people's opinions about poverty and poverty-related policies and programs. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 1.0 POST or CAST credit at the 2000 level, or permission of instructor.

Cross-listed: POST-3422H, CAST-3422H, SOCI-3422H

Examines the criminalization and punishment of Indigenous peoples as inter-related and overlapping forms of colonial violence. Explores an emerging Indigenous criminology, linkages between residential schools and incarceration of Indigenous peoples, and implications of the intersections of race, class and gender in crime control. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 60% or higher in CRIM 2616H.

Cross-listed: INDG-3600H

An introduction to basic statistics and their application in criminological research. Prerequisite: CRIM 2617H. Not open to students with credit for SOCI 3160H.

A critical look at gender-based violence as a political and legal construct. Topics may include missing and murdered Indigenous women, legalization debates regarding sexed work, hegemonic masculinities and violence. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 60% or higher in CRIM 2616H or GESO 2141H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3625H, PLCW-3625H

Examining trends and issues within Canada's correctional system related to the historical and contemporary context of correctional practices. Topics include punishment, human rights, pre-trial detention, race and incarceration, drugs, mental health, the role of correctional officers, families and incarceration, parole and release from prison, and prison tourism. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 60% or higher in CRIM 2616H. Not open to students with credit for PLCW-CRIM 4002H.

How do criminologists research experiences of being policed, criminalized, and punished? Using various methodologies such as critical ethnography, archival research, and the penal press to explore life on the run and life inside, students build a research project aimed at capturing the human experience of criminalization and punishment. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits including 60% or higher in CRIM 2616H.

This course critically interrogates policing, punishment, and criminalization in ways that extend beyond common-sense knowledge claims, by situating how and why they are delimited by the material conditions characteristic of neoliberal capitalism. Prerequisite: 5.0 university credits including 1.0 CRIM credit at the 2000 level.

Cross-listed: PLCW-3660H

Explores key issues, theories, and debates concerning gender, feminism, and the law, primarily in Canada. Approaching law as a site of regulation and constraint and drawing upon restorative justice pedagogies and decolonial methodologies, the course examines issues such as family, sexuality, violence, pornography, prostitution, poverty, employment, and immigration. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, CRIM or POST credit, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3962H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3962H, CAST-3962H, POST-3962H, SOCI-3962H

Examines how gender-based violence impacts individuals, communities, and societies, and applies an intersectional lens to consider differences in experiences, interventions, and acts of resistance. This course assesses responses to gender-based violence at the community, institutional, and policy levels, and critically reflects on strategies required to make change. Prerequisite: 6.0 university credits including GESO 1001H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3965H

A criminological analysis of women in trouble from early to late modernity to the present moment, with specific analysis of the disciplining and incarceration of cisgender women and trans women. Focuses on the Canadian criminal justice system, with analysis of its racist, colonial, patriarchal, homophobic, ableist legacies. Prerequisite: 1.0 GESO, WMST, CAST, CRIM, or SOCI credit, or permission of instructor. Excludes WMST 3966H.

Cross-listed: GESO-3966H, CAST-3966H, SOCI-3966H

Exploration of trends and approaches within the correctional system in Canada, including the historical and contemporary context of correctional practices. Attention is paid to the differential impact of Canadian corrections on Aboriginal people and other minority groups. Prerequisite: 12.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: PLCW-4002H

Examines drug regulation and the management of drug users across social institutions. Focus will be given to the definition of drugs, the rise and implications of the war on drugs, and how the role that the war on drugs leads to mass incarceration of racialized groups in Canada. Prerequisite: 12.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: PLCW-4007H

An applied research methods course specifically focused on how to conduct case law data collection and analysis using online legal databases. Topics covered may include Charter cases, human rights tribunal cases, and criminal trial/sentencing decisions. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits including SOCI 2150Y, and 2.0 3000 level credits of which at least 1.0 must be SOCI.

Cross-listed: SOCI-4110H

Using a critical victimological approach, this course explores criminological and legal conceptions of victimization and victimhood alongside socio-political meanings of the victims' rights movement. Topics include media representations of victimization, harm reduction discourses, gender-based violence, environmental crime, and cybercrime in contemporary intersectional and carceral contexts. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits.

Cross-listed: PLCW-4220H

Topics may include the border and migrant criminology, public criminology, aging in prison, abolition, penal tourism, and prisoner re-entry. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits. Open only to Criminology majors.

Virtual group collaborations helping community partners investigate solutions for real-world Criminology issues, such as in corrections, policing, law, non-profit, and victim advocacy. Since many problems are systemic issues, the intent is not to solve them outright but rather to offer unique viewpoints grounded in the academic literature and group collaboration. Prerequisite: A minimum 70% average over all CRIM credits completed and 10.0 university credits including 2.5 credits at the 3000 level. Open only to students in the Criminology program.

Explores the law and society relationship, the power of law as a tool for social change, and the practice of law. Topics may include miscarriages of justice, critical socio-legal studies of equality, Indigenous peoples, human rights, and youth justice. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits including both SOCI 2110H (2100Y) and 2150Y, and 2.0 3000-level credits, of which at least 1.0 must be SOCI.

Cross-listed: SOCI-4270H

This course is a competitive entry 40-hour placement in criminology workplaces. Students who are interested in this opportunity must submit an application package as outlined on the Criminology website (trentu.ca/criminology). Open only to students in the fourth year of the Honours program in Criminology. Prerequisite: A minimum 80% cumulative average and 12.0 university credits including 2.0 CRIM credits at the 3000 level.